Nota interesante,2008 presidential politics

As a superdelegate, Feinstein had declared that she would support Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.However, once Barack Obama became the presumptive nominee for the party, she fully backed his candidacy…………………………………………………………………………………………

WASHINGTON – The Senate will convene in a rare Saturday session after making some progress toward passing a $1.1 trillion bill to fund the government Friday night. Despite the step forward, lawmakers failed to lock down a deal after two Republican senators demanded the bill be stripped of money that could be used to implement President Obama’s new immigration policy.

Senate GOP leaders pledged to fight Obama’s immigration plan next year when they take control of the upper chamber but Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, suggested they shouldn’t be entirely trusted to keep their pledge.

“We will learn soon enough if those statements are genuine and sincere,” Cruz said, in a clear reference to Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner.

Still, current leaders from both parties say the bill remains on track for a Monday vote.

On Friday, the House passed a second stopgap measure Friday afternoon, buying the Senate additional time to discuss and vote on a $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill.

The House vote provides a pad to make certain the government doesn’t shut down at midnight Saturday when current funding authority runs out.

It’s still unknown whether the House measure, passed by a voice vote while the chamber was virtually empty, will be needed. Senate leaders say they hope to wrap up action on the omnibus budget bill by Friday night but say that goal is looking less attainable.

Washington woke up to “Fallout Friday,” with liberal Democrats openly outraged at Obama and conservative Republicans disgusted with Boehner after both did enough wheeling, dealing and arm twisting to push through a spending bill three hours shy of the midnight deadline.

The surprise beneficiary in this latest political conundrum could be Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a relative newcomer to the Senate but looking more and more like the liberal Democratic answer to who might challenge Hillary Clinton for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination.

The House narrowly approved a sweeping spending bill Thursday night despite deep misgivings among liberals and conservatives alike, sending the measure to the Senate as lawmakers averted a partial government shutdown.

The bill passed on a 219-206 vote, following an intense lobbying effort by House Republican leaders and the White House.

Ben Carson: It’s Time Lawmakers Start to ‘Grow a Spine’

By Melissa Clyne

Instead of behaving as an autonomous body, conservatives should heed the message sent by the electorate in November, Dr. Ben Carson said Friday on “America’s Forum,” where he discussed the $1.1 trillion spending bill that was passed by the House on Thursday.

“I really am a little bit surprised that the Republicans are not paying a little closer attention to their constituents and the message that they provided in the midterm elections,” he told the Newsmax TVshow.

“They said please stop the craziness. They didn’t say continue to go along to get along,” he said.

“When you have your power and your power based there, that’s when you attack it. You don’t allow the president’s programs to take root so that it becomes much more difficult to dislodge.”

Instead of self-serving politicians worrying about what’s good for their party or making decisions based on getting re-elected, Carson said they should “start thinking about what’s good for our country.”

“Stop being afraid that somebody is going to blame you,” he said. “That may have been the case in the past, but enough Americans have awakenedto the fact that if we continue down this program, we’re going to destroy the future for those who are coming behind us.”

To get America back on the right path, Carson suggests making clear to elected officials that they “represent us.”

“We have a republic-type government,” he said. “They don’t rule us, but they do what we want done.

“Obviously, we’re going to have to send that message even stronger. We the people are at the pinnacle of power here and we need to make it very clear.

Resettlement will cost billions of dollars(State Department) – The federal government is preparing for another “surge” in refugees and this time they won’t be coming illegally from Central America.The U.S. State Department announced this week that the first major contingent of Syrian refugees, 9,000 of them, have been hand-selected by the United Nations for resettlement into communities across the United States.The announcement came Tuesday on the State Department’s website:

“I would like to thank HC Guterres and Renata Dubini. Your leadership on the Syria crisis has made a huge difference, as has all of your work on behalf of some of the most vulnerable people on the planet.

I also want to recognize Germany and Sweden for their commitment to Syrian refugees and asylum seekers. We are also grateful to Sweden for leading the Syrian Resettlement Core Group over the last year.

We applaud the generosity of Syria’s neighbors. They opened their borders and took in Syrian refugees. Like the High Commissioner I have visited all the host countries represented here today. These countries have helped save millions of lives.

As the flow of refugees has grown to a mass exodus, countries hosting refugees in the region have contended with overcrowded hospitals and schools, shortages of everything from housing to water, economic pressures and recent evidence of mounting public resentment.

But these very real burdens must pale in comparison to the daily struggles of Syrians themselves.

Imagine losing practically everything – your loved ones, your home, your profession, and your dignity. Imagine the frustration of languishing for years, unable to work or send children to school, exhausting your resources and relying on handouts. Imagine fearing that this situation is never going to end.

For Syrians and for other victims of violence and persecution – resettlement offers not just an escape, but a chance to start over.

A family from Homs, a shop owner, his wife, and their six children, experienced this flight and rescue. In August of 2010, the father was standing in a crowd of peaceful protesters when the Syrian military arrived and opened fire. Bodies piled up in front of his shop, shells reduced it to rubble, neighbors disappeared, and soldiers ransacked the family’s apartment and made threats. The family fled to Jordan, and they were eventually resettled in the United States. The parents say one of their dreams has already come true. All of their children are back in school.

Only a small fraction of those who want to be resettled can be – only about one hundred thousand refugees per year, worldwide. There are more than six times that many Syrian refugees in Jordan alone.

But war’s true cost is measured in human suffering. Resettlement can help – one person at a time – to bring that suffering to an end.

We applaud the 25 countries that have agreed to resettle Syrian refugees, including some who will be accepting UNHCR refugee referrals for the first time. The United States accepts the majority of all UNHCR referrals from around the world. Last year, we reached our goal of resettling nearly 70,000 refugees from nearly 70 countries. And we plan to lead in resettling Syrians as well. We are reviewing some 9,000 recent UNHCR referrals from Syria. We are receiving roughly a thousand new ones each month, and we expect admissions from Syria to surge in 2015 and beyond.

Like most other refugees resettled in the United States, they will get help from the International Organization for Migration with medical exams and transportation to the United States. Once they arrive, networks of resettlement agencies, charities, churches, civic organizations and local volunteers will welcome them. These groups work in 180 communities across the country and make sure refugees have homes, furniture, clothes, English classes, job training, health care and help enrolling their children in school. They are now preparing key contacts in American communities to welcome Syrians.

I am inspired both by the resilience of refugees we resettle, and the compassion of those who help them. Resettlement cannot replace what refugees have lost or erase what they have endured. But it can renew hope and help restart lives. That can make all the difference.”

Pascal is under pressure after her private emails were exposed by hackers who attacked the computer network of the Hollywood movie studio, a unit of Sony Corp.

In exchanges with producer Scott Rudin, Pascal guesses that Obama might be a fan of “Django Unchained” or other films with black actors or themes. The emails were published by Buzzfeed and Reuters has not confirmed them.

In a statement on Thursday, Sharpton said Pascal’s statements reflected a “lack of diversity” in Hollywood. He said Sony needed to take steps “to respect the African American community and reflect that respect in their hiring and business practices.”

Pascal and Sharpton had a “candid conversation” when she phoned him to apologize on Thursday, said Sharpton’s spokeswoman Jacky Johnson. But Sharpton “made clear he has not accepted her apology,” she said.

Sharpton is “inclined” to call for Pascal’s resignation, “but has agreed to hear her out in person” in New York before making a decision, Johnson said.

A Sony spokeswoman had no comment.

Pascal, in a statement on Thursday, apologized and said her emails were “insensitive and inappropriate.” She told the Hollywood Reporter she reached out to Sharpton and Reverend Jesse Jackson and wanted to start “a healing process.”

“I’m being proactive,” she said. “And I want to accept responsibility for these stupid, callous remarks.”

White House spokesman Josh Earnest, at his daily news briefing on Friday, said “the decision that Ms. Pascal made to apologize was the appropriate one.”

Aaron Sorkin, who wrote Sony hit “The Social Network,” defended Pascal on Friday.

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Fast-Track Citizens: Obama Administration to Bring in 12,000 Syrian Refugees a Year

We applaud the 25 countries that have agreed to resettle Syrian refugees, including some who will be accepting UNHCR refugee referrals for the first time. The United States accepts the majority of all UNHCR referrals from around the world. Last year, we reached our goal of resettling nearly 70,000 refugees from nearly 70 countries. And we plan to lead in resettling Syrians as well. We are reviewing some 9,000 recent UNHCR referrals from Syria. We are receiving roughly a thousand new ones each month, and we expect admissions from Syria to surge in 2015 and beyond.

Like most other refugees resettled in the United States, they will get help from the International Organization for Migration with medical exams and transportation to the United States. Once they arrive, networks of resettlement agencies, charities, churches, civic organizations and local volunteers will welcome them. These groups work in 180 communities across the country and make sure refugees have homes, furniture, clothes, English classes, job training, health care and help enrolling their children in school. They are now preparing key contacts in American communities to welcome Syrians.

I am inspired both by the resilience of refugees we resettle, and the compassion of those who help them. Resettlement cannot replace what refugees have lost or erase what they have endured. But it can renew hope and help restart lives. That can make all the difference.

In Special Reports, this week’s files cover: Russia Says Earth Is Under Attack by ET?

The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force. Under Project Blue Book, the US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years; and we continue this research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.

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RussiaSays Earth Is Under Attack by ET Using Natural Events?

Earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, fires and tornadoes have been killing and destroying many areas of the world just in last several weeks. UFOs have been seen in large numbers over key areas prior to and after the disasters. I don’t know if this alleged report is accurate, but tremendous events are occurring.

A shocking top-secret’ report prepared by Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) on their meeting this past week with Prime Minister Putin, in Novgorod region,warns that our planet Earth is under attack’ by an as yet unnamed extraterrestrial entity’ to which President Medvedev has responded by ordering a second regiment of S-400 Triumf anti-aircraft missile system to protect Moscow from low-Earth orbiting targets.

According to this report, the extraordinary gamma-ray explosion [photo below] first observed in deep space on March 28 by NASA’s Swift satellite, and that lasted twelve days, appears to be communicating’ with the massive Asteroid 2010 SO16, the largest space rock ever discovered so close to Earth, and Asteroid 2005 YU55, a round mini-world that is about 400 meters (1,300 feet) in diameter and which in early November will approach Earth within a scant 0.85 lunar distances.

Though Russian scientists have as yet been unable to identify what these communications’ mean, this report continues, the effects upon our planet are being widely observed due to these two Asteroid’s shooting of blue beams’ into our Earth’s upper atmosphere that have been captured on video by the International Space Station. [ See videos here.]

This EMERCOM report further states that one of these blue beams’ created a massive vortex’ thatopened over northern Germany this Friday past hurling nearly 100 vehicles into total chaos killing 8 people and wounding over 41 more.

Even more alarming is this report stating that as these two massive Asteroid’s have moved closer to our Earth over the past two-decades, the winds on our planet have been mysteriously increasing too, a shock finding further confirmed by Vice-Chancellor Ian Young, of the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, who has found that our world has gotten stormier the past 20 years, winds have picked up around 5 percent on average, and extremely strong winds caused by storms have increased even faster, jumping 10%.

Equally alarming is this report stating that our Earth’s ozone layer has suffered a record loss this spring over the Arctic due to these blue beams’ disrupting our planet’s magnetic shielding a finding further confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization who report that observations from the ground, balloons and satellites show that this region has suffered an ozone column loss of about 40% from the beginning of the winter to late March. This EMERCOM report, also, reports that these two massive Asteroids are responsible for the many reports around the world of two suns appearing in the sky, such as in China this past month where one such episode was aired on their national news program. [See video here.]

Bill Cooke, of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Center, in a statement said, “Another danger to our Earth is the presence of these massive Asteroids with their gravitational fields directing towards our planet fireballs every Spring season, such as the one that exploded in the skies this past week over the US State of Tennessee.